Administer Apache Kafka platforms from Calgary, Alberta, working onsite five days weekly across on-premises, cloud, and ROSA environments. Apply cluster management and connector expertise daily.
This experienced Kafka Platform Administrator and Developer supports reliable, scalable, highly available event-driven integrations. The work combines platform engineering, development, operations, and monitoring across development, testing, staging, and production. Responsibilities include Kafka Connect, Datadog, GitHub, and production support.
Key Responsibilities: Administer Kafka clusters, brokers, topics, partitions, and access controls
Deploy and maintain Kafka services across multiple environments
Develop, configure, and troubleshoot source and sink connectors
Monitor health, throughput, latency, lag,



and connector status
Provide L2/L3 support, incident management, and root cause analysis
Requirements: Eight-plus years in middleware, messaging, streaming, or integration
Strong Apache Kafka administration and development experience
Hands-on Kafka experience with Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS
Experience with Kafka Connect, GitHub, Datadog, and Kafka CLI
Knowledge of security, Linux, networking, SQL, and serialization formats
Use Kafka administration, connector development, monitoring, and operational support skills in Calgary’s onsite enterprise setting.

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📌 Senior Kafka Platform Administrator (Alberta)
🏢 Tekfortune
📍 Alberta